Pervouralsk

Pervouralsk (Russian Первоуральск, literally: "the first in the Urals ") is a 124 528 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) scoring big city in Sverdlovsk Oblast in Russia. It lies about 40 km west of Yekaterinburg and is separated from it by the main ridge of the Urals, which runs two kilometers east of Pervouralsk and is marked by a monument at 1778 kilometers of the Trans -Siberian Railway.; so that the city still lies in the European part of Russia. Pervouralsk is located 283 meters above sea level, the city flows the Chusovaya, a tributary of the Kama.

History

After the entrepreneur Vasily Demidov built an ironworks in 1730, was built around 1732 in their near a settlement, which was called Wasiljewsko - Schaitanski ( Васильевско - Шайтанский ). It received city rights in 1933 and was renamed on this occasion in Pervouralsk. The city had 44,000 inhabitants in 1939 around 1959 already 90,000. In the headlines Pervouralsk fell on January 13, 1990, when in the vicinity of the city, a Tupolev Tu-134 Aeroflot crashed; of the 71 people on board were 27 killed.

Tube factory

Economy

Pervouralsk recently recorded a very positive economic trend with growth rates in the industrial production of 25-30% per year and sales growth in trade of 20 % annually. The unemployment rate is only around 1%. The average income is the equivalent of about $ 300, however, slightly below the average for the Oblast. The largest employer in the city was established in 1934 Röhrenbau company.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Vitaly Malkin ( born 1952 ), businessman and politician
• Igor Malkov (* 1965), speed skaters